The South's Fight for Race Purity 213 would almost rather die than to be found guilty of it." In a nutshell, Dr. Stiles proposes that the boys of each college and university in the South, having been duly instructed in the evils and horrors of miscegenation, shall be asked to make oath that they will have no knowledge of negro or mulatto women during their stay at the respective institutions, and that whether or not the oath is adhered to shall be left to the student body. On my trip through the South I told a number of educators of it and they expressed themselves as being heartily in favor of its adoption. It bids fair to be adopted by a number of institutions of learning within the next year. I was told that an anti-miscegenation club was recently formed by certain men at Natchez, Miss., and that its membership is growing rapidly. Boys are more impressionable than adults; therefore, they should prove more susceptible of such moral improvement, or rather it should be easier to keep them on high sanitary ground. Of course, all talk of teaching the negro or mulatto girl to withstand the advances of the white youth is simply chimerical twaddle. There are many worthy professors and physicians who stoutly maintain that in simply warning Southern boys against the colored woman, as a preliminary prophylactic work, a compromise with the devil is being made; that what should be taught and required is outright social purity. Theoretically, this admits of no argument; practically, it won't work - yet. It is hard to read the lectures delivered to the freshmen of the University of Pennsylvania by Dr. Robert N. Wilson or some of the papers or Dr. Howard A. Kelly and not conclude that the one thing to do is to make a mighty effort to take the great big Utopian step at once. The fact is the negro must first be eliminated socially - and he will be. Meanwhile, the advice of Dr. A.L. Wolbarst, of New York, may well be followed. "Educate the men, young and old, to the dangers of professional and clandestine prostitution, and the fight is half won," he says. "Educate the women, old and young, and clandestine prostitution will receive its death-blow. Educate the rising generations that they may know better than their predecessors what they must avoid, and how to do it." [James K. Vardaman, former Governor of Mississippi, will discuss another phase of this depraved miscegenation in the March issue of this Magazine. He thinks this the most important problem which the American people must solve. He tells what it means to the South, what it will mean to the North, and what remedy musst be applied to preserve the health of innocent, high-spirited women and to halt the constant increase of the unmoral Negroid population.]